Fran McCaffery Coaching 2-Pack

University of Iowa head coach Fran McCaffery offers you a look at his Rotation Zone Continuity Offense that has proven successful throughout his career. This continuity offense has detailed cuts, actions, and movements that will get your best shooters a shot from anywhere on the court.

Coach McCaffery uses on court demonstrators to take you through the repetitive movements within the Rotation Zone Offense. Coach starts with a basic set-up that you can use to initiate your offense or allow your players to morph their set up into a more traditional zone offense to beat the best 2-3 zone. With each pass, McCaffery details where offensive players must move to create a scoring opportunities for themselves for their team.

As you watch Coach McCaffery breakdown the 2-3 zone defense, you will learn several different entry angles including high post, wing, wing reversal, and dribble penetration. With each entry, you will learn how to stretch your opponent's 2-3 zone defense in order to attack it from the baseline and score lay-up after lay-up on your opponents. He details each players responsibility as they move the ball from side to side shifting the defense and creating open shots at the high post, baseline, or open jumpers from the wing.

Once your players have mastered the basic concepts, cuts, and actions of the Rotation Zone Offense, Coach McCaffery outlines four different looks within the offense that will confuse your opponents and give you special scoring situations out of a timeout, free throw, or late game situation, that will energize your offense.

By using 5-on-0 and 5-on-5 demonstrations, you will learn how to master the Rotation Zone Offense and ways to implement it right into your offensive system, so your opponents won't know how to guard you, whether man or zone.

With patience and aggressive cuts, your team will soon be dissecting any 2-3 zone with this time-tested offense.

73 minutes. 2013.

Fran McCaffery's breaks down his defensive philosophy in great detail in this video to help you make your team a better man-to-man defensive unit. He starts off by discussing developing an identity as a program defensively to help you become a better coach.

This video demonstrates how to defend ball screens, different ways to trap, how to help and where, and the key fundamental skills every great defender and team must be able to execute in a game.

Individual Defense
At the beginning of every season, Coach McCaffery reviews defensive fundamentals with his teams. The very first thing that needs to be mastered to become a great defender is the stance. In this video, McCaffery demonstrates foot position, hand position when guarding the ball, how players should sit in their stance, and the slide and drop step. Close outs are taught and then demonstrators are put through a drill that develop both closeout skills and defensive slides.

Team Defense
Using1-on-1, 3-on-3 and 4-on-4 drills, McCaffery teaches player positioning when guarding the ball from different spots on the floor and where the help should be, as that dictates where the defender will force the ball handler. Techniques for handling cutters, straight cuts, screen away, baseline drives as well as many other specific situations are demonstrated.

Ball Screens
Because ball screening is a popular offensive concept, McCaffery demonstrates all the ways to defend against it and, depending on where the ball screen occurs, reveals the best way to play it. The team then goes live 3-on-3 and 4-on-4.

Throughout the video, Coach McCaffery provides coaching insights not only into the "hows," but also the "whys." With a laser focus on the fundamentals, this video is will help you develop a stingy man-to-man defense.

76 minutes. 2013.